Definition of Antherid

1. a male reproductive organ of certain plants [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antherid

anthemed
anthemia
anthemic
anthemically
antheming
anthemion
anthemions
anthemis
anthemises
anthems
anthemwise
anther
anther culture
antheral
anthered
antherid (current term)
antheridia
antheridial
antheridiophore
antherids
antheriferous
antheriform
antherogenous
antheroid
antherozoid
antherozooid
anthers
antheses
anthesis

Literary usage of Antherid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1867)
"The eight vesicles emanating from the eight cells converge in the centre of the antherid, where they are united by a small cellular mass ; while a ninth ..."

2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"... slender, gradually tapering into the fertile portion, -the transition very rarely abrupt: antherid zone when young prominently tuberculate with 2—5 ..."

3. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1905)
"From the side of this mycelium thread arises an organism, the antherid, which also has ... As the antherid usually springs from the mycelium just below the ..."

4. A Laboratory Manual of High School Botany by Frederic Edward Clements, Irving Samuel Cutter (1900)
"What is the structure of the antherid? Where do the stoneworts grow? (f. 120, p. 205: XXVII. ... and antherid of this plant and those of Nitella? ..."

5. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"The antherid is supported on a short flask-shaped pedicel which also projects into the ... The number of these filaments in each antherid is about 200, ..."

6. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"In both again the microspore produces a very small (one- to few-celled) gametophyte. However, the antherid of the higher Lycopods is a few-celled structure, ..."

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